I still say if Fox was serious about helping FRINGE it would have a better lead-in than “Kitchen Nightmares”.
Let’s debate this a moment. Just think about it … the audience that watches reality shows are not the same audience that would like Fringe, and the Fringe audience would be less likely to watch KN.
What Fox needs is a better lead-in show. Maybe even a trilogy of shows (which would mean pushing Fringe back an hour) to form a solid block of programming for them.
With a better lead-in, Fringe would have much higher ratings!

In order to do that Fox would need to invest money in Friday’s and in Fringe and neither of those are going to happen. Fringe might get another season, but I hope the writers realize that they need to wrap it up if they get another season. If you look at the ratings of other shows, 1.1 doesn’t beat some of the reruns.